The timing couldn’t be better: Thursday to Saturday, 23-25 August 2012.

The Turing Festival events are aligned with regular Edinburgh Festival Fringe events – they’re either free or relatively low cost. The timing of most of the Turing Festival events mean you can geek out for a couple of hours, then head off to grab an Edinburgh Festival Fringe comedy gig (or whatever takes your fancy!) The bulk of the Turing Festival events take place in the Appleton Tower at Bristo Square, which is exactly where many other Edinburgh Festival Fringe events are taking place too!

The Turing Town organisers have managed to secure Steve Wozniak as their keynote speaker! The keynote is taking place at the Edinburgh Playhouse – it’s bound to be popular so get your tickets before they sell out!

The chaps over at Scottish Developers have written a piece about the Turing Festival too! They’ve highlighted the events that you can attend for free, but they do touch on some of the low-cost events.

Welcome to show number 60, a bit of a milestone, but there’s no celebration!

In this show I’m talking with Rachel Hawley and Paul Stack. Rach and Paul talk about the first UK outing of the GiveCamp concept. Perhaps not the first UK developer charity event, but certainly the first outing for the GiveCamp concept in the UK. Over the course of 20 minutes, Rach and Paul explain what GiveCampUK is all about, what’s involved, who is involved and what to expect on the weekend it takes place!

In this show, where no beer had been consumed (a-may-zing), I’ve taken Claudio Perrone aside and forced him to give me a one-2-one presentation! Claudio delivered an awesome lunchtime session at the Irish Software Show: Crafting Outstanding Presentations – Storytelling Techniques. I really wished that I had taken my camcorder to record it, it was amazing. However, fear not, Claudio was kind enough to share his skills in this audio recording!

In this show I’m talking with Stuart Manning. Stuart attended DDD Belfast (4th April 2009) – we chat about Twitter clients, community events, vendors on Twitter, Flex, Silverlight and more. We were in a restaurant, Guinness was being consumed…we did have a really good view of the Belfast night life, we did see “some sights” (sorry, no photos are available!)

In this show I’m talking with Matt Lacey about Windows Mobile, the devices that you might meet if you are developing for the mobile market, the challenges that present themselves and the solutions that are in place. Matt also tells us what tools we need in order to develop or target mobile devices.

In this show, I’m joined by Microsoft Academic Evangelist Paolo Barone. We talk about Paolo’s role promoting Microsoft and .net in academia, XNA, Silverlight, Twitter and close with a chat about Windows 7. You’ll also get a chance to hear my [dreadful] attempt to close the podcast in Paolo’s native language!

During our chat about Twitter and Windows 7, we noted that Steven Sinofsky was very open to community feedback…hopefully this short recording is enough to convince Steven to join us all on Twitter where feedback is almost constant, first-hand and directly addressable!

In this show, Andrew Burnett shares his experiences of Search Engine Optimisation, Twitter and radio broadcasting. Andrew’s claim to fame, or “ego stroke” as Andrew refers to it in the podcast, is appearing at the top of a list of Top 83 tweets of 2008!

Twitter to implement OAuth?
I mentioned Twitter authentication in this podcast. Specifically I was thinking about OAuth. Further information can be found here and here.

Badge facing inwards, clever security move, very clever. Oh, and that’s the huge Christmas tree in Building 2 at TVP as mentioned in the podcast!

“I wanted to scare the hell out of myself”

As many readers and listeners will know Stephen Lamb moved from his security role over to…well, a role in public relations. I for one wanted to know what Stephen does in his new role and I know a few other folks were keen to know too. Ten weeks into the new role, I happened to be in the same place as Steve…we grabbed a coffee, a comfortable sofa and recorded this: “30 minutes on the sofa with Steve”. I won’t spoil it for you, if you’re keen to understand Steve’s new role, this is well worth a listen!

In March 2008, Microsoft’s “2008” wave of product launches took place in Birmingham. It was a great opportunity to grab some podcasts with Microsoft Executives and many of their DPEs. In this podcast, co-hosted by Andy Westgarth, we’re chatting to Microsoft Application Platform Manager and HHH event hero, Matt Dunstan.

Stealing a show naming scheme from the NxtGenUG chaps, this is “The One With The Semi-naked man in…”

Luckily it wasn’t our guest, esteemed Internationalisation expert and Microsoft MVP Guy Smith-Ferrier. Andy Westgarth, myself and Guy sat down on the most comfortable seat at this event and chatted about Guy’s session, his user group DotNetDevNet and a host of other things. I decided to edit out the semi-naked man scene in order to keep the flow, however I put it back in near end of the show…every podcast should have a man clad only in boxer shorts, yes?

Despite what it might sound like in this recording, no money changed hands…there will be no cash for questions here, no sir.

In March 2008, Microsoft’s “2008” wave of product launches took place in Birmingham. It was a great opportunity to grab some podcasts with Microsoft Executives and many of their DPEs. In this podcast, co-hosted by Andy Westgarth, we’re chatting to Microsoft SQL Server Evangelist Andrew Fryer. Andy asks Andrew some challenging questions and receives some excellent answers. Andrew pops up with a few interesting quotes, well worth a listen!

This podcast was recorded back in March 2008, since then SQL Server 2008 has been released.

In this podcast you can listen to David Yack and Jonathan Carter very eloquently discussing ALT.NET and .NET 3.5 SP1 and beyond. You may hear me using to the word “opposite” somewhat out of context, apologies for that…I was within the “safe for podcasting alcohol limit”…it just goes to show that any alcohol and podcasting can be have consequences… Luckily David and Jonathan are more professional than me and carried on answering the question has if they had heard it correctly in the first place!

Recorded live inside Italian Graffiti (their web-site does need a face lift, yes?) near Soho, London, just after ALT.NET Beers 2, organised by Sebastien Lambla. There is some restaurant noise, please grin and bear it, one has to grab podcasts with superstars as and when they arise, rarely is there a quiet room to hide in!